Plot holes in games

[Cama Zots]

Ever notice that when a villain does something remarkably stupid? Either bringing about his or her demise when it could have been easily avoided or missing a golden opportunity to eliminate you, the protagonist and player, and your allies.
Or when you and your allies miss and opportunity to end the conflict of the game.

I think that the entire plot of FEAR and FEAR 2 could have been avoided just by doing as our friend from Zero Punctuation says and "by the little girl an ice cream every now and then."

Can you name any others?

 

[SimuLord]

As many have pointed out, why is it that in games like Advance Wars, when Orange Star is basically the last hope of the world, the Black Hole army (on the verge of world conquest) throws a few low-level mooks at the problem and steadily gives up ridiculous amounts of hard-won territory before revealing "oh yeah, we've got a superweapon, eat this Orange Star!"

For every Big Bad who's done the equivalent of the rabbit taking a siesta right before the finish line of the race against the turtle, there has GOT to be a better way of setting a battle scene in gaming.

 

[Halo Fanboy]

That guy in Half-Life 2 with the beanie, I got him killed.

He shows up again.

 

[Worgen]

the locust queen in gears 2, you spend time talking when you should be shooting her in the face

 

[Satin6T]

the whole of the dragon ball series for letting your enemy power up before a fight

"he's open cheap shot time"

 

[randomhero1928]

prototype - Flood the city with bloodtox the second the infection started?

 

[kamario]

every game that has some crazy strong bad guy at the end who for some reason only decides to attack you when your at your strongest-very silly IMO

 

[j0z]

In KOTOR:

Spoiler

Why, if Malak wants you dead so much, why doesn't he just blow up the planet you're on? Or send more than 5 fighters when you are escaping the planet. Plus, why wait until you are more powerful than you were before to fight you?

 

[lostclause]

That guy in Half-Life 2 with the beanie, I got him killed.

He shows up again.

Same sort of thing with Johnson in Halo 1 before they realise this and give him invincibility for 2.

 

[BoxCutter]

the locust queen in gears 2, you spend time talking when you should be shooting her in the face

I believe I was screaming that at the screen during the cutscene.

 

[Vrex360]

Not a game this one I know but this is a plot hole I really want to discuss in regards to the latest Terminator flick... if you haven't seen it avert thine eyes as I still haven't gotten the hang of the spoiler box.

In this movie Skynet is aware that Kyle Reece is John Connor's father from the future and therefore is activley seeking him out, because if they destroy him then they destroy John Conner and in turn the resistance never got started. But the thing is, half way in the movie they capture Kyle then leave him there as a hostage.... WHY? If they want Connor gone from existance so bad then why not just kill Kyle Reece right then and there, what the hell were they waiting for? Also why was Conner surprised and indeed ANGRY to see a Terminator made with human tissue considering he had already encountered them twice and both of those times he had been saved by them.


Actually I do have a game one, Fable 2. Why does Theresa give you the magic box? Having the magic box made you a target for Lucien in the first place and then why does she let you go into the castle if she is aware of the risk involved. She kinda got your sister killed yet you serve her without question.

 

[kamario]

Also,i remember playing a starwars game for the ps1 when i was 8 or 9-darth maul was meant to run straight past me,somehow i pushed him into a corner and killed him about 20 mins into the game,was quite dissapointed

 

[fluffybunny937]

Not a game this one I know but this is a plot hole I really want to discuss in regards to the latest Terminator flick... if you haven't seen it avert thine eyes as I still haven't gotten the hang of the spoiler box.

In this movie Skynet is aware that Kyle Reece is John Connor's father from the future and therefore is activley seeking him out, because if they destroy him then they destroy John Conner and in turn the resistance never got started. But the thing is, half way in the movie they capture Kyle then leave him there as a hostage.... WHY? If they want Connor gone from existance so bad then why not just kill Kyle Reece right then and there, what the hell were they waiting for? Also why was Conner surprised and indeed ANGRY to see a Terminator made with human tissue considering he had already encountered them twice and both of those times he had been saved by them.


Actually I do have a game one, Fable 2. Why does Theresa give you the magic box? Having the magic box made you a target for Lucien in the first place and then why does she let you go into the castle if she is aware of the risk involved. She kinda got your sister killed yet you serve her without question.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17390_5-reasons-terminator-franchise-makes-no-goddamn-sense.html